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Florida Executes Curtis Windom, Marking Record 11th Execution of 2025

Courts rejected late appeals over counsel quality, clearing the way under an expanded schedule of death warrants.

In this Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 photo, the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary is pictured in McAlester, Okla. Oklahoma plans to resume executions Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, after botching its last one and will use the same three-drug method as a Florida lethal injection scheduled for the same day.
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Overview

  • Authorities said Windom, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. after a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke.
  • He was convicted for the Nov. 7, 1992 killings of Valerie Davis, her mother Mary Lubin, and Johnnie Lee after buying a .38-caliber revolver and carrying out a series of shootings tied to a $2,000 debt.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene on Wednesday following Florida Supreme Court rulings, leaving intact rejections of claims about ineffective trial counsel and mental-health evidence.
  • The execution is Florida’s 11th this year, surpassing the state’s modern-era annual record of eight; it is the 30th U.S. execution of 2025, the highest national total since 2014.
  • Reactions from relatives diverged, with one victim’s sister citing closure while Windom’s daughter opposed the execution; Florida’s next execution, David Joseph Pittman, is set for Sept. 17.